Hamilton police arrest two people for alleged voter fraud, no charges have been laid

Hamilton police are not responding to published reports that they’ve made two arrests in connection with alleged voter fraud at the Hamilton-West-Ancaster-Dundas provincial PC nomination meeting last year.

Hamilton police have said they are still investigating oddities surrounding that nomination meeting in which Ben Levitt was declared the candidate for the Progressive Conservatives in the previous provincial election, but police are not saying anything more at this point. No charges have been laid.

Lawyer Norm Williams went to that meeting to vote for the lawyer who shares his office, Vikram Singh, one of two challengers who filed and then settled lawsuits alleging ballot-box stuffing. Williams says he noticed something awry at the meeting when he had to go to the desk for voters who didn’t bring proper identification, that is where irregularities were reported.

“So I’m there and in front of me I don’t know who there were, they were strangers to me but behind them there was a skirmish, in a matter of seconds.” A physical skirmish? “Yelling, some yelling.”

Hamilton police are currently fighting to keep documents related to the investigation sealed, while media lawyers say they should be released in the interests of transparency. In their reasons, police mention that the allegations involve the governing provincial party and could prejudice a potential jury pool.

The Premier was asked about the issue today.

“This is their job to do an investigation. My job is to clean up the PC party after the mess that Patrick Brown left.”

Court documents do not say who was arrested or why police have not laid charges. Investigators have searched two homes belonging to one suspect and seized evidence that includes documents and digital devices.